noun
Etymology
Origin of dogtrot
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With its boxy geometry and dogtrot porch — three rooms on one side of the breezeway and two on the other — the folk-style house looks like a collaboration between Donald Judd and Annie Oakley.
From New York Times ● Mar. 4, 2018
Christian homilies, dogtrot poetry, and treacly moralizing are delivered in a smooth, slightly formal country voice that goes down like lemonade with all the tang sugared out of it.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 13, 2016
With minimal prompting, she is happy to hold forth on the history and architecture of dogtrot houses.
From New York Times ● Jun. 17, 2014
Pat was one of eight children reared in the family’s dogtrot house in the cotton patch.
From Washington Post
I had slowed to a dogtrot as I passed the pond, and when I reached the store I stopped, got partly behind it, and sat down where I could still watch the road.
From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien
Shirttails flapping, the white-faced Premier dogtrotted into the square with his aides at his heels.
From Time Magazine Archive
"I'll surely come, when the weather gets warmer," Nan called after Toby as the old man dogtrotted down the bank of the river.
From Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp or, the Old Lumberman's Secret by Carr, Annie Roe
The door slammed as the two dogtrotted it down the street.
From A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life by Seely, Herman Gastrell
The door slammed, eager feet sprang down the wooden porch steps, and her son dogtrotted north toward his chum's, as fast as his legs could carry him.
From A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life by Seely, Herman Gastrell
Recruited from nearby Venetian-blind, box and ladder factories, they stick to their jobs like leeches, work so fast they seem to be dogtrotting.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hours of his days are still spent dogtrotting through the Rouge and Willow Run shops, poking his long nose into obscure corners, knowing everything that is going on.
From Time Magazine Archive
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